"We will certainly present our best case," Fenty said in an interview with Bloomberg News in Washington. "There are a huge percentage of District residents who want the team back in the city. It's a big uphill battle, but I don't think it's necessarily out of the question."

Redskins spokesman Karl Swanson said the team has no plans of leaving FedEx Field in Landover, Md., which is just outside the city.

"We have a 30-year commitment to Prince Georges County which we intend to honor," he said.

He said the meeting is scheduled for April and called it "a meet and greet only," event.

Fenty, 36, wouldn't say what incentives the city might offer Snyder to move the team back. The Redskins left RFK Stadium in the District at the end of the 1996 season for their current home.

Snyder, the chairman of Six Flags Inc., the second-largest U.S. theme-park operator, bought the team and its current stadium in 1999 for a record $800 million.

Fenty said that any new District stadium would be an "urban" model with retail and business development nearby. It would be similar to the Washington Nationals' stadium in the city, which will be completed for the Major League Baseball team in 2008, as well as other parks in San Francisco, Cleveland and Baltimore, which have helped redevelop cities.

"We are not going to be building any new stadiums that have a suburban model. The approach is to have a stadium that generates energy and excitement," he said.

When Fenty was a city councilman, he was opposed to the agreement that brought the Nationals to Washington. The city may wind up spending as much as $611 million toward the team's new stadium. Major League Baseball contributed $20 million toward the stadium.

The Redskins franchise was worth $1.42 billion last year, making it the NFL's most valuable, Forbes magazine said in August.